Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna
Magneto-electric dipole (ME-dipole) antennas offer several advantages, including wide impedance bandwidth, stable high gain, unidirectional radiation, and low back-lobe radiation patterns, making them suitable for modern wireless communication systems. However, the thickness of conventional ME-dipol...
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| description | Magneto-electric dipole (ME-dipole) antennas offer several advantages, including wide impedance bandwidth, stable high gain, unidirectional radiation, and low back-lobe radiation patterns, making them suitable for modern wireless communication systems. However, the thickness of conventional ME-dipole antennas is typically about a quarter wavelength (0.25<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) at the center operating frequency, which may not be desirable for portable device applications. This work introduces a new feeding method that reduces the antenna profile and ground plane size while maintaining the same advantages. A suspended horizontal line is proposed to excite the cavity-less ME-dipole antenna through proximity coupling. The measured results demonstrate a wide impedance bandwidth of 45.3% (ranging from 2.05 GHz to 3.25 GHz) and an average in-band gain of 9 dBi with stable <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>±</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dBi in-band variation with a ground reflector of size about 0.89<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msubsup><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></semantics></math></inline-formula>. More importantly, the cavity-less design reduces the overall thickness of the antenna to 0.17<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> at the center operating frequency. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-778d6990c5a24f74ade53c8644fd645e2025-08-20T02:45:01ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202025-02-01254123410.3390/s25041234Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole AntennaKhalid Almegbel0Kin-Fai Tong1Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UKDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UKMagneto-electric dipole (ME-dipole) antennas offer several advantages, including wide impedance bandwidth, stable high gain, unidirectional radiation, and low back-lobe radiation patterns, making them suitable for modern wireless communication systems. However, the thickness of conventional ME-dipole antennas is typically about a quarter wavelength (0.25<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) at the center operating frequency, which may not be desirable for portable device applications. This work introduces a new feeding method that reduces the antenna profile and ground plane size while maintaining the same advantages. A suspended horizontal line is proposed to excite the cavity-less ME-dipole antenna through proximity coupling. The measured results demonstrate a wide impedance bandwidth of 45.3% (ranging from 2.05 GHz to 3.25 GHz) and an average in-band gain of 9 dBi with stable <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>±</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dBi in-band variation with a ground reflector of size about 0.89<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msubsup><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></semantics></math></inline-formula>. More importantly, the cavity-less design reduces the overall thickness of the antenna to 0.17<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mo>λ</mo><mi>o</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> at the center operating frequency.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/4/1234proximity coupledsuspended coupling linewidebandstable high gainmagneto-electric dipoles |
| spellingShingle | Khalid Almegbel Kin-Fai Tong Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna Sensors proximity coupled suspended coupling line wideband stable high gain magneto-electric dipoles |
| title | Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna |
| title_full | Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna |
| title_fullStr | Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna |
| title_full_unstemmed | Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna |
| title_short | Low-Profile Proximity-Coupled Cavity-Less Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna |
| title_sort | low profile proximity coupled cavity less magneto electric dipole antenna |
| topic | proximity coupled suspended coupling line wideband stable high gain magneto-electric dipoles |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/4/1234 |
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